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Off-hours Policy to automatically turn on and off the cloud resources

Your Organization has successfully developed, tested, staged, and deployed the applications using the resources in the public cloud. Due to the fact that the segregation of networks is required between the environments, it is best to create separate AWS accounts. This allows developers to do their design, development, and innovation and does not make concessions in data security. In no time your organization will have multiple AWS accounts for development, testing, staging, and production. By the time you realize, your organization has 100+ accounts and your cost is skyrocketing. It is very important to know what resources you are running in the cloud, for how long, what purpose, and its ownership.

Moving from a traditional data center to the public cloud gives unlimited bandwidth, self service provisioning, scaling, measurement on resource usage, and per-per-use model.

Examples of off-hours policy

# 1 — EC2 off-hours stop

policies:- name: csp-na-ec2-off-hours-stop
  resource: aws.ec2
  comments: |
    The policy will apply only to…